When you have the album launch at 5pm but a crime scene to attend at 6pm

📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨

The call for abstracts for our 2025 Annual Conference will now close on Friday 21 March 2025

📥 Email mcalnan@ed.ac.uk your submission by 21 March 2025 📅

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Might not be long for this place (Twitter, not life). I'm also @aliceseywright.bsky.social if you're there.

The potential for degradation of nitazenes in unpreserved blood. Should we be testing in preserved?
doi.org/10.1093/jat/bk…

Toxicology people who are still on here and also on Bluesky: who is good to follow there?

Using qualitative (positive/negative, above/below threshold) methods?
Join the upcoming #SOFT webinar on the topic!
I will be discussing the consequential upcoming changes to the ASB 036. Validating qualitative methods will look quite different when this 2nd Edition is out!

Other scientists working in the drug-related death field might have some feelings on this (especially from UK countries that aren't England).

bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

Mushrooms of Arran, October 2024.

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?

And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.

A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

A great day at @EdinburghUni King's Buildings for @DoorsOpenDays. Getting the little ones into Science 🔬

The proteins that drive drug addiction: chemistryworld.com/features/the-p…

💥NEW RESEARCH PAPER💥

Our collaborative work w/ @UniofBath, led by Sam Craft (@Bath_AIM), on the detection and quantification of synthetic cannabinoids in vapes submitted to a UK drug/alcohol service has been published (open access) in @AddictionJrnl 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

4 countries, 5 days, dozens of social media posts, too many coffees, and not enough sleep. That's #TIAFT2024 over. It was great. Now I'm going home to sleep 😵‍💫

I find myself in the enviable position of encouraging everyone to attend my #TIAFT2024 talk about *maths* at 17h18 on the penultimate conference day. 😅 What can I say. It's going to make your method of standard addition (#MSA) much better (1/2)

Tox on tour

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿➡️🇨🇭 for #TIAFT2024

Poorly prepared toxicologists all over the world (me) rush to Amazon

There were 1172 Drug-Related Deaths in Scotland in 2023.

•+121 on 2022
•80% implicated opioid(s)
•58% implicated benzos (426/678 were bromazolam)
•41% implicated cocaine
•38% implicated gaba/pregab

nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and…